Studied in Australia for five years .. loved it .. beautifully country ..drove from Brisbane to Melbourne twice .. countryside is the best part

I was there from 07 -12. This doco has a copyright date 2012 which looks about right from what I could see. That was the end of the construction boom. Things are a lot quieter there now and substantially cheaper living costs. Rentals have dropped from around $500/bedroom down to $100/bdrm, some even cheaper. My ex lives and works there and my oldest lad drives cranes for Mammots out of Hedland. Don't miss the place one bit.

Visited port head in the early 90’s A German guy asked if he could swim in the channel the local guy said yes…… but stay shore side of the reed beds, when the tourist asked why ? The answer was will it gives you a head start from the sharks! Surprisingly he didn’t go into the water 😂😂😂😂😂

I visited Port Hedland in 2012 and it was a very impressive sight but the feedback I got from the Australians I spoke to was the mining operations were inflating housing and food prices over a wide area of Australia so on one hand it's been good for the countries economy but the inflation has left a lot of unhappy people. The thing I love about Australia is wherever I travelled everyone had a smile on their face so it can't be that bad.

Music is TO LOUD for the talking... But W O W, that was Very interesting...!!! As an Ex lime rock Quarry & Coal stripmine worker, Ex Tugboat operator then Pilot... I found this REALLY Interesting. 👍😃😎

I worked no all aspects in the 60/70s on many jobs and it was a neat experience.

In the first 10 seconds, it says Australia is the 6th biggest country with "the largest coastline on Earth". Actually, Australia has the 7th longest coastline on Earth, according to Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_length_of_coastline

@dontbelieveeverythingyouth8173

2 жыл бұрын

Never let the truth get in the way of some good old Australian "Bestintheworldism"

Right on mate!!!

Absolutely crap audio.Interesting though..

I second that, sack the soundman! Haha

The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald comes to mind , luv the vids

Right at the end, great slogon: "Our people are moving mountains, everyday."

Must these docu-films have noisy, unnecessary thump-thump backing music?

@57monoshock

4 жыл бұрын

Jump up and dance dance dance, like I do.

im confused. is this the largest bulk export port in the world? I wish someone would address this question.

@nunya2954

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, he says it at the 4:45 mark or there about. Turn it up and you can hear him say it is larges tonnage export port in the world. Tonnage - bulk = same thing.

@joebreau1967

4 жыл бұрын

It's the biggest Iron Or export in the world.

Very interesting doco thanks

My ear drums are gone !!!

I worked there from 1971 to 85 for Mt Newman had a ball

@abeelliott9046

4 жыл бұрын

Nigel, My uncles builder mate came out from england as a young bloke about that time early seventies and the stories he told me, it was a wild place. I think gladstone had nothing on port headland by the sounds of it. He He

Amazing that such a large technological concern has no idea how to use audio.

in the us/canada great lakes, we had iron ore now carried by 13 1000 footers.

Iwas fortunate to have been able to drive through it anacross it,took me 6 months in a 2.5 ton international harvesror truck back in 1975. Drove alot three hours before dawn so the gas in the line wouldn't vaporize and across the nullabar 6 to 7 foot red roo's.. It was dangerous but so rewarding. In 75' I'd say 99.9 percent was on dirt roads. imagine driving NYC to LA on dirt roads of many different types. Especially corrigateted.ones. Im 66 now iwas a dumb kid back then.

@shananagans5

4 жыл бұрын

And I bet you wouldn't trade the memories of that experience for anything. In 1975 I was a 12 yo tomboy. I found a junked 350 cc Bultaco motorcycle engine and my uncle helped me rebuild it and put it on a go cart. I learned to drive sideways that summer, and yes, those are scabs all over my face for my 6th grade school photo. lol Our young and dumb years do provide us with fun memories.

@jimmytiler5522

4 жыл бұрын

@@shananagans5 funny I to had bultaco motorcycle. Yeah it was one finecexperience,albeit dangerous.

Was set to enjoy this but the sound level variations ruin it. Why the loud music over the speech ?.

Come a long way from an England penal state God bless

@michaelmcneil4168

4 жыл бұрын

Don't send the sound man back we have our own peoblems.

amazing documentary enjoyed it just wondered quite a bit about Australia over the years and its economy(how it works) i also found it interesting the relationship between Australia and a communist super power country like china and the possible effects on the average aussie citizen still lots of questions but i will keep studying

Canada, not Australia has the longest coastline,, actually about 8 times as long as Australia

@dalelc43

4 жыл бұрын

Yet if you made a road that roughly followed the coast it would be shorter. Look at a map it's not hard, look at Russia's coast somehow yours 8 x size of that too. Zoom out google maps and look. One bloke stood at the starting point you measured 10km and yelled it back to him standing 100 meters away.

Is the greasy spoon still parked outside the State port

Excellent work, thank you for your sharing information.

Great video, but the background music way too loud, very poor audio mixing.

Volume up and down makes it hard to listen to

I hate this dramatised dumbed down narration.

Right out of the gate this person states Australia has the largest coastline , not. Australia is number 8. Canada number 1 by far.

@BPMoments

4 жыл бұрын

Lakesurfer59 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

I wonder what the largest bulk shipping port in the world is. Anyone?

@philipjooste9075

4 жыл бұрын

C'mon, give us a clue!

i worked at port hedland for a catering company in 1978. i only lasted for 3 months.

@wombatone5577

4 жыл бұрын

In 1976 Poon brothers were the caterers, the food was amazing and 24 hr service for shift workers.

Bit angry love Australia xx

Is it true that Australia us basically controlled by 18 super rich families?

@fckgooglegooglefck9124

4 жыл бұрын

LOGOS MEDIA / UNSPUN youtubes cover the dark, eugenicidal ALDOUS HUXLEY and also his counterpart, Leonard George Holden Huxley, a major personality in Australia.

loud but good....

let your goverment take your rights and give away your resources

i wanna come and see that place

i hate throbbing pounding background music. really ruins an otherwise good documentary. maybe its time to fire some of the music editors.

@57monoshock

4 жыл бұрын

Jump up and dance dance dance, like I do.

The obvious question to ask is why with Australia blessed with huge coal and iron ore reserves do they not produce the iron/steel in Australia to make even more money/jobs?

@nzer57

5 жыл бұрын

AU used to have steel plants at Newcastle and Wollongong. The Chinese killed them with much cheaper steel. www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/06/16/wollongong-the-other-steel-town-forgotten-by-the-election_a_21396178/

@carbidegrd1

5 жыл бұрын

the cost of energy

@keithwelton

5 жыл бұрын

carbidegrd1 Surely the energy needed to produce the steel costs less in Australia than in China, Japan and Korea which import most of Australia's iron ore and indeed coal. It would also save on energy if steel was exported rather than steel's ingredients.

@mattoates7636

5 жыл бұрын

Cheap chinese steel coal and slave labour have killed the steel industry pretty much world wide

@richardc7721

5 жыл бұрын

@@nzer57 I've read several reports that China is sinking under it's own excesses from it's rapid growth. The Farmers are leaving the country for the cities and the better life it offers. Coupled with the growing demand the workers are putting on industry for higher wages, growing burden of a poorly built infurstructer is dragging their economy down. One of the biggest mistakes made by Europe and the US was giving away their manufacturing abilities. Entire factories shut down and all of their equipment sold for almost nothing to China. The UN through its bank, the IMF and other means pressured member nation's to do it. They promised great financial rewards to Co operating counties and threats of calling loans on countries who refused. I ve worked with and for international businesses in Canada, the States and Europe and have heard the same story, their politicians forced many industries to relocate to China. Many times the pressure came in the form of environmental laws, restrictions and fines / taxes making it impossible for industry to refuse. The UN pressured member nations to submit to environmental taxes and restrictions while imposing no such taxes or restrictions on China. On top of that UN poured hundreds of millions of dollars into China telling the world it was good business. Instead they have created a new monster that wants it all. Their growth is also putting heavy demands on world resources like never before, That is forcing prices around the world higher as availability of those resources dewindle China leaders have stated repeatedly that they will not be denied what they need. This has led to them putting massive amount of their GDP into building their military and building military bases on islands through out the Pacific so they can choke off international sea Lanes. By doing that they can block shipping to and from many nation's and demand whatever they want to. Same thing the Japanese did in the 20s and 30s. That hurt Australia badly because the cost of goods skyrocketed when much longer routes had to be used.

The kindest thing I can say about Port Hedland is this: When I'm king, I'm gonna have that shit hole nuked and if I plan it right, I should get South Hedland at the same time.

@davidsteele3748

4 жыл бұрын

TombstoneHeart made me laugh for ages , well done still laughing as I text , from a Brit

One would think that if that channel to the harbor was so important to the economy that it would be on the agenda somewhere to dig the damn thing a bit deeper.

@nzer57

5 жыл бұрын

They did from 09-11. All the land on the eastern side of Finnicun is reclaimed from what came out of the harbour, also the area north of Wedgfield and much of FMG port facility is reclaimed estuary from dredgings out of the harbour. They not only dredged the inner harbour but the channel out past the reef was also deepened and widened.

@chevtruck1000

5 жыл бұрын

@@nzer57 Nice, hopefully that'll give them some breathing room. It's no fun threading a needle with a rope.

I wonder what the biggest bulk port in the world is.

I had a dump in this port before

I believe the Brit places use imperial units, miles, not kilometers.

I'm confused, is Port Hedland the biggest bulk tonnage export port in the world?

@danajohnson3799

4 жыл бұрын

I know right? You would have thought they could have mentioned that "Port Hedland is the biggest bulk tonnage export port in the world" at least once during the video. Perhaps I missed it.

@dearliza1365

4 жыл бұрын

@@danajohnson3799 they mentioned it three times at the beginning and twice in the middle

@danajohnson3799

4 жыл бұрын

@@dearliza1365 - They do? I thought perhaps the Ausies were being typically modest, as they are often known to be. Well, I'll just have to watch the video again. Thank you for pointing out my mistake Dear hart.

@caahacky

4 жыл бұрын

Seems to me it could be in-line to be the sixth biggest port in overall tonnage in THE WORLD - but I'm guessing.

@jeffcampbell1555

4 жыл бұрын

@@danajohnson3799 Heeheeheehee

Australia dreams

Jeez, cut the music especially around 36:36 with the coverage of the ship's engine room. The engines, gearing and shaft activity should be humming, not sounding like a out of balance washing machine...or a major worn bearing on the drive shaft.

There’s going to be a fair amount of pain when China’s growth slows down a great deal. They’ve built up huge debts and a great deal of non performing loans on useless real estate and infrastructure. There will likely be worldwide strong recession coming early 2020s.

@aclark903

2 жыл бұрын

This comment aged well!

I've always wondered of moving a huge amount of weight like this from one part of the earth to another would affect the earth's rotation or wobble.

@michaelmcneil4168

4 жыл бұрын

When you are wonder full come back and tell us

@dennisgt479

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelmcneil4168 ?

@cup_and_cone

4 жыл бұрын

You're joking... Right? The amount they're moving is like 0.00000000000001% of the continent's mass

@dennisgt479

4 жыл бұрын

No it's a honest question, think over the last say 150 years how much material has been moved around just by man kind, i do wonder if it actually has any effect, or is it so small in the grand scheme of things that it doesn't make a difference.

@michaelmcneil4168

4 жыл бұрын

@@dennisgt479 The answer is in the VEI tables a VEI 5 is Mt St helens a VEI 6 is Pinatubo, a VEI 7 which we are likely facing soon is a Tambora. On a map they are smaller than pock marks on a face. It would be hard to see a VEI 8 except for the plume.

Why not process the iron ore into steel in AUS?

@danajohnson3799

4 жыл бұрын

Silly Ausy, because like us Yanks, you expect to be paid a decent wage for a days work.

@cup_and_cone

4 жыл бұрын

It's literally cheaper to ship dirt to the other side of the Earth than it is pay people a livable wage vs sweatshop labor. Let that sink in...

So have they thought that iron ore WILL end up running out of the ground sooner or later...unfortunately when they don’t think about what’s gonna happen tomorrow is never thought of...and not just for Australia where I hope one day to visit but for every country across the world...bigger ships, bigger trains and bigger drilling buckets....just say if 100 years or whatever what will Australia do then? They would have depleted all their iron Ore but hopefully when they just about finish digging they’ll strike it rich with something big.....

Why aren’t you making in to steel

But they have "Good Sssss Kill" With the Music and the amount of overdrive you would think the is a documentary about some Polynesian cannibals or something....... My kid came running in ...Kong, Kong! Poor sound man for sure, the sound editor should have been yanked after the first daily

How do you spell 'Craikie' or is it 'crieky' .

@turbo.panther

4 жыл бұрын

Crikey. These days hardly anybody ever says it and you almost never see it written down.

@alexisantonakis8897

4 жыл бұрын

Crikey...really...never knew that...;)

Nice

They keep saying the same thing.

Upload vedio which is related to off-road trucking

Learn this! Anytime you have one person gave their opinion without an opposite view, whatever comes out of their mouth is worthless. The first thing out of their mouth is they have the largest coastline in the world. Wrong!! Canada has is the largest. I believe they are number 8. Wow, that is a large deficient. Not sure about number 8 but I am sure Canada is number 1.

Why all the background noise? Can't understand the narrator

@rmorton3186

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe it is because he is speaking English

@bluegrass818

4 жыл бұрын

@@rmorton3186 ??????

keep out of the water shark territory

Try Valencia n Spain.

Why don’t the multi million dollar making companies put money into the town of Port Hedland and Karratha and the smaller towns and aboriginal villages like schools hospitals building the towns infrastructures helping unemployed locals the ones that have worked for the mining companies and now are unemployed because of being over45 years of age

Dont want them ..

More bullshit Port Hedland is actually the 5th biggest bulk export port.

Crikey.

But, you drive on the wrong side of the road.

Impressive the rich get richer the pore get porer

Sound management(?) on this video is appalling.

@57monoshock

4 жыл бұрын

Jump up and dance dance dance, like I do.

I used to live in the UP of Michigan where iron ore was a big produce. But since 2016 Trump is now gop prez and he seems soft on russian prez Putin...I hope to be around in 2020 to get him out if he has not been impeached before the vote.

The company film to impress the world and themselves. Tell us something about how they support the towns of Port Hedland and Karratha how the pore money into education library’s subdivisions homes shopping centres roads helping to fund rebuilding after cyclones Helping aboriginal and local people those that are homeless and the unemployed because of their policies to only employ fly in and fly outlets. House them in their own villagers use their own airports and feed them by importing their own shit not supporting anything locals automating everything creating more money for themselves and more unemployment. The money they make in a day they could build twenty towns the size of Karratha. The last time I was in Port Hedland I couldn’t believe the town hasn’t changed in twenty years but the port has taken over the coast line and it is all fenced off to the locals you can not find beaches to swim or fish that goes to for Karratha

and soon to be part of the caliphate unless the Australian people wake up

Why do the Aussies export the raw ore, wouldn't it be more profitable to smelt all that ore into iron and steel then export the finished product? I would think ya'all could make a lot more money that way.

bad audio

Impossible to watch due to pathetic sound changes . Also boring as all hell bragging constantly.

... interesting otherwise, thank you for posting... That fucking music is loud/unnecessary.

Very bizarre music 👎 unwatchable 👎

Why do these videographers seem to think its OK to play annoying, shitty music during the vid??? You are NOT professional movie makers.....we're hear to watch interesting , in formative videos NOT have the experience RUINED by this SHITTY< ANNOYING music !!!

What is up with this stupid "music"?